Keewatin at the Great Lakes Museum in Ontario.
Built for speed and stamina on the Great Lakes of
North America, Keewatin was to be a major player in Canadian maritime history.
Keewatin is a remarkable Edwardianera steamship with a rich history that spans over a century. Built in 1907 by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Glasgow, Scotland, she was commissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) to serve as a passenger and cargo vessel on the Great Lakes of North America.
Keewatin
was launched on 6 July 1907, and completed in September of the same year. Another notable vessel built on the Clyde that year was
Lusitania,
then the world’s fastest ship, which shared the River with
Keewatin
on sea trials and preceded
Keewatin’s
first and only transatlantic crossing by just one week.